The heat is over-powering, the fatigue extreme, the King less deserted and better protected.

Five or six of the deputies, three of the municipal officers, a few officers of the National Guard, have succeeded in making their way to him.

Petion himself, mounted on a sofa, harangues the people with his accustomed flattery.[2554] At the same time Santerre, aware of the opportunity being lost, assumes the attitude of a liberator, and shouts in his rough voice: "I answer for the royal family.

Let me see to it." A line of National Guards forms in front of the King, when, slowly and with difficulty, urged by the mayor, the crowd melts away, and, by eight o'clock in the evening, it is gone.
***** [Footnote 2501: Moniteur, X.39 and following pages (sessions of Oct.
5 and 6, 1791).

Speeches by Chabot, Couthon, Lequinio, and Vergniaud .-- Mercure de France, Oct.15.Speech by Robespierre, May 17, 1790.